The Colony of Antikara is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its lack of airports, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 736 million Antikarans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 77.2%.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Antikaran economy, worth 30.7 trillion Saals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 41,708 Saals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

Country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally, strange looking men with big red noses are found hiding behind bushes and inside dustbins, and the nation is known abroad for fast food and nothing else. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Antikara's national animal is the Lizard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Antikara is ranked 311,940^th in the world and 1^st in Kara for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 9,509.56 Standard Monetary Units.